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PostPosted: Thu Aug 15, 2013 12:10 pm 
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This is gonna be a train wreck.

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PostPosted: Thu Aug 15, 2013 12:16 pm 
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I guess it's just personal bias, but if Selig and MLB came out with the cure for cancer it'd still look fucking retarded to me.

And what's with the entirely unnecessary rationing of the 3 challenges? Umpires never really fuck up for the first 6 innings apparently, but those last three, well god dammit they get hungry, their blood sugar is low, they've been looking at the broad's tits in row 3 too long, just way too much distraction attraction I guess. Those first six innings? Fuck it, immaterial. Those last three? BIG. BOY. BASEBALL. PANTS. .... or maybe umpire slacks.

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PostPosted: Thu Aug 15, 2013 12:20 pm 
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In my parts of 6 decades in this game, the best I have ever seen at using umpire challenges before the seventh inning is Manny Acta. You better play hard for Manny. And you better call it right with him too, cuz he'll get ya if not!

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PostPosted: Thu Aug 15, 2013 12:22 pm 
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This is gonna be great.

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PostPosted: Thu Aug 15, 2013 12:35 pm 
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Fuck you, Flounder.

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PostPosted: Thu Aug 15, 2013 12:39 pm 
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Can MLB please have a box clock as well? This surely will add time to games. Teams like Boston and NYY already cause games to last an excess of four hours.

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Keeping Score wrote:
I believe the best part is this:


Baseball, using its central MLBAM offices in New York, will be provided with replay cameras that will be monitored by men with umpiring experience. They will make the final call on disputed plays, not the crew chief.



What if they have like 5 different challenges going on at approximately the exact same time?


Bud is installing one of these

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Keeping Score wrote:
I believe the best part is this:


Baseball, using its central MLBAM offices in New York, will be provided with replay cameras that will be monitored by men with umpiring experience. They will make the final call on disputed plays, not the crew chief.



What if they have like 5 different challenges going on at approximately the exact same time?



It's not entirely implausible to wonder if that's a part of the reason for the challenge restrictions (e.g., East Coast games in the late innings while West Coast games are just starting, so less chance of the latter (and later) games having challenges in the queue while the Red Sox are pissing about whether David Robinson balked or played with himself on the mound).

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Don Tiny wrote:
Terry's Peeps wrote:
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Fuck you, Flounder.

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Don Tiny wrote:
It's not entirely implausible to wonder if that's a part of the reason for the challenge restrictions (e.g., East Coast games in the late innings while West Coast games are just starting, so less chance of the latter (and later) games having challenges in the queue while the Red Sox are pissing about whether David Robinson balked or played with himself on the mound.
Do you think the Admiral every played with himself on the court?

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PostPosted: Thu Aug 15, 2013 1:27 pm 
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i'm down if they can add in some lights and sirens around the ballpark for whenever the challenge is on. sponsorship opportunities galore!

this is some more "sanctity of the game" rubbish tossed out there by the same guys who are squashing baseball's drug problem by getting rid of the world's most famous centaur, a-rod.

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